RFR (S) 8062307: 'Reference handler' thread triggers assert w/ TraceThreadEvents

[David Holmes]

Thanks Jiangli!

David

On 13/11/2014 9:37 AM, Jiangli Zhou wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> The change looks good.
>
> Thanks,
> Jiangli
>
> On 11/12/2014 03:27 PM, David Holmes wrote:
>> The CCC for this trivial removal has been removed.
>>
>> Still need two reviewers please.
>>
>> David
>>
>> On 30/10/2014 2:23 PM, David Holmes wrote:
>>> On 30/10/2014 2:13 PM, David Holmes wrote:
>>>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8062307
>>>>
>>>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dholmes/8062307/webrev/
>>>>
>>>> It turns out that the little known TraceThreadEvents logic has been
>>>> broken since at least very early in JDK 5. A develop-only option it was
>>>> intended to show when different Thread methods were called (the VM side
>>>> of certain java.lang.Thread methods). While that sounds potentially
>>>> useful for debugging it seems that in practice it is not - this has
>>>> been
>>>> broken for over 10 years with nobody noticing: it is unused. So rather
>>>> than fix unused code it is proposed to simply delete it instead.
>>>
>>> Correction this has been noticed in the past:
>>>
>>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6757482 (2008-10-09 06:51)
>>>
>>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2008-March/001586.html
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> David
>